Despite the day (TGIF!), the weather (95 degrees and rising), and other developing national security news, the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse security checkpoint was brimming with people primed to hear ...

It's a big news day in national security law for all kinds of reasons---one being today's opinion from the Fourth Circuit in United States v. Sterling.   That, of course, is the prosecution against a fo...

Bob Litt, general counsel to the DNI, is speaking at the Brookings Institution at this hour on "Privacy, Technology and National Security: An Overview of Intelligence Collection." His prepared remarks ar...

When the Verizon telephony metadata issue first broke, I posed the following question about the government's legal position: Because we have only the order itself, not the application that underlies it, ...

Tomorrow morning, Judge Rosemary Collyer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will hear arguments on the government's motion to dismiss in Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta. The lawsuit was filed l...

"Crossing Lines" is a new NBC cop series this season that features ... well, here's the plot description at Wikipedia: Based in The Hague, a fictionalized version of the International Criminal Court's sp...

I write, speak, and testify periodically about the reciprocal importance for the United States and U.S.

Judge Lewis Kaplan's excellent Second Circuit opinion in Hedges yesterday should end the controversy over whether the 2012 NDAA expands or merely codifies the government's AUMF detention authority---thou...